Fishing near South Woodstock in Windham County, CT

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Mirror Carp, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 143
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 322
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Lake View at Roseland near South Woodstock

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2.8 lbs caught at Roseland Lake  near South Woodstock

2.8 lbs caught at Roseland Lake

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RoseLand Lake View near South Woodstock

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2.43 lbs 18.2inches near South Woodstock

2.43 lbs 18.2inches

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2.23 lbs 17.7inches near South Woodstock

2.23 lbs 17.7inches

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Top Fishing Spots near South Woodstock

Roselan Lake
Roselan Lake

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Quinebaug River
Quinebaug River

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West Thompson Lake
West Thompson Lake

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Alexander Lake
Alexander Lake

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Black Pond
Black Pond

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Rogers Pond
Rogers Pond

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South Woodstock Area Fish Species

Recent South Woodstock Fishing Reports

RoseLand Lake, Woodstock CT Fishing Report Aug 02, 2009

RoseLand Lake, Woodstock CT

RoseLand Lake Woodstock CT -

Very Nice Lake....Caught 6 Bass off Black Yamotos worms, horizontal baits like spinners, top water, and cranks were just not working here....
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Roseland-hammered it Fishing Report Nov 01, 2009

Roseland-hammered it

Roseland -

Great day..went with my bud steve...little mist, wind for a hour or two..cleared up..got there just before sunrise..started with a 4 inch black/blue h...

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Thompson Dam Fishing Report Jan 29, 2009

Thompson Dam

Thompson,CT -

huge resivoir(sp?) loaded with LMB's....

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Alexanders Lake Fishing Report Jul 19, 2007

Alexanders Lake

I Love This Lake!...

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Quinebaug River Fishing Report Jul 16, 2008

Quinebaug River

Quinebaug River -

Went fishing at the bridge on 101....

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Trousa on da ground lookin like a foo wit your trousa onda ground Fishing Report Feb 05, 2010

Trousa on da ground lookin like a foo wit your trousa onda ground

alexander lake -

Alexander lake for a couple hours.. was trying for pike bait but ended up with a 19" brown and largemouth going to make the hike for pike tomor...

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Baits and Tackle used near South Woodstock

Check Prices

  • Tube
  • nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
  • one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound
  • White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer
  • Rattle trap
  • shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
  • Just a worm on a size 2 hook.
  • Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
  • 4 " Senkos black blue flake drop shot and Road Kill Bass Pro style Senko. We tried many different colors and baits but most of our fish came on these two colors.
  • Senko
    Kivas
    Rubber Frog

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Hand size Kivas
  • 1 on the Senko
    1 on Sqiggly tail
    4 on Kivas
  • Shiinners
  • Perfect size Kivas
  • Chung's Best
  • Big shiners
  • Medium sized Frog
  • Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly

Creature Check Prices

  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
  • Carolina Rig
  • used baby brush hog

Tube Check Prices

  • drop shots and topwater

Minnow Check Prices

  • big dead goldies
  • mediums
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
  • Small
    Medium
    Big Dead Pondies
  • medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
  • Chung's Best
  • live bait old school
  • Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
  • Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
  • see Damon for detailz
    Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
    11-1/2" Short
    1lber culled
    Limit was:
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 7oz
    1-1/4lbs
    1lb 1oz
    1lber
  • 2lber on Spinnerbait
    10" on drop shot
  • My 3 Fish Limit was:
    1lb 11oz
    1lb 4oz
    14oz

    4 Shorts too
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • Fast retrieve

Frog Bait Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms
  • Rapala slash bait
  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 6" and 8" on inline spinner
  • 11-3/4" on a tube
    11-1/2" on wacky worm
    7" and 10" on inline spinner
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
  • Phoebe
  • Thomas Spinner
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th
  • Thomas spinner
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Yamamoto sinkos
  • i used a 10 inch black rubber worm
  • Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
  • using 6" senko green pumpkin
  • Shakeyhead - 1-1/2lber, and 1-1/4ber
  • Shakey Head
    My Biggest 2 Largemouth of the day were 2lbs 5oz, and 1lb 14oz - Most of the others were in the 1-1/4lb to 1-1/2lb range
  • 4in Senko - Caught this calico during the tourney too.
  • Shakey Head
    Both Smallies were 1lb
  • Shakey Head
  • 4in Senko - These were the other three of my limit:
    3rd - 17in 2lb 1oz
    4th and 5th 13in 1lb'ers

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerkbait
  • 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.

    1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out

    a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
  • 11" Drop Shot
    11-3/4" Carolina Rig
  • Drop Shot
  • 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
  • Drop shot
  • 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
  • 2-1/4lber was my best
    Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
  • All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
  • 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
    the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
  • 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
  • gulp
  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
  • Rooster tail
  • I used powerbait rubber worms.

Craw Check Prices

  • yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • First cast and I had one.
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz

Crankbait Check Prices

  • crankbaits and spinners
  • Squarebill, and dropshot
  • Booyah tiger
  • 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
  • Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
  • THE Matzuo
  • Rapala segmented shad
  • 4" jerkbait silver-black back
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
  • All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
  • 1-1/2lber on Jig
    11" on Dropshot
  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range
  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • 4"senko
  • texas rigged senko
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Grub Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Running a keitech 3" spider jig with BPS crappie Jig head. Fish did a good job almost getting away, fought very hard, and almost straitened out the hook.

Other Check Prices

  • powerbait yellow
  • Inline Spinner, Dropshot
    one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
  • Big
    Dead
  • Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
  • Maize has been my bait of choice, followed closely by maple peas and an oat based pack bait.

    Molasses and maple have been strong producing flavors for me this early on..latter this will change to more fruit and maybe even a fish/blood as the water warms.
  • Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
    Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait

    Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait

    Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
    Meal worms, canned corn, bread

    Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.
  • This was our trial run weekend for a new line of boilies my friends and I have been working on from the Blackstone Carp videos. Dat Food Boilies ( we used 3 types Shrimplies(shrimp), Gold(pineapple)and Pop-ups). I won't give the recipe on these as it has taken me quite some time to put a truly good boilie together. I will, on request, give out some more basic boilie recipes to get people started though.

    Also Feed corn was on the menu and did produce a fish or two.
  • Our bucket contained once again
    feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.

    Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.

  • Feed corn and Dat food are always on the menu now. Maple peas have made their way back as well. We had a batch of Anise and fruit ( see the tutorial on bait in the forums or at www.blackstonecarp.com) and some of the Dat food dough un boiled. Dat food seemed to be the bait of choice with maples coming in just behind.
  • We have been using primarily feed corn, soaked for at least 24 hours then boiled for 1 hour till it is a firm but chewable texture. Molasses and fishy flavors have been the producing choices.

    We have also been using a grits based pack bait, with some results.



    Pre-feeding will produce better results typically

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